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1 Chronicles 22:1

David
Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”

2 So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.

3 David provided a large quantity of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with more bronze than could be weighed

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
KJV
Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
WEB
Then David said, “This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
ASV
Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.
DARBY
And David said, This is the house of Jehovah Elohim, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.
BLB
And David said, “This is the house of YHWH God, and this [is] the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
ÅB
Og David sa: Her skal Herren Guds hus stå, og her skal brennofferalteret for Israel være.
OTB
På den tiden erklærte David,
"Dette er huset til Herren Gud,
og dette er brennofferalteret for Israel."
B1930
Og David sa: Her skal Herren Guds hus stå, og her skal brennofferalteret for Israel være.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 2 Chronicles 3:1

    Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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  • 1 Chronicles 21:18–28

    Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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  • Genesis 28:17

    And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”

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  • 2 Samuel 24:18

    And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

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  • 2 Kings 18:22

    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

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  • 2 Chronicles 6:5–6

    ‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.

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  • Psalms 78:60

    He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

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  • Psalms 78:67–69

    He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

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